Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) - DXVA!

[XhmikosR]

Other thing. I updated my MPC with 1.4.2788 (and 2748 before), and I get some macroblocking with internal x264 decoder.
Look :

http://img638.imageshack.us/img638/4106/2788w.th.png (http://img638.imageshack.us/i/2788w.png/)

And I tried with 2499 and 1845, no problem :

http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/4099/2499andbelow.th.png (http://img269.imageshack.us/i/2499andbelow.png/)

I can make a sample if needed.
Not a real issue for me, I use coreAVC, but for some maybe ?

You do not provide enough info. Also as I have said numerous times, do not report bugs in this thread. After a few hours or days the reports will be lost due to the fact that this thread is huge.
Use the trac, create a new ticket and provide all the info like which decoder you are using (DXVA or not), if it happens with ffdshow's decoder (DXVA or not), what GPU, what driver version etc.

PS. x264 is the name of the encoder.

[Kazuya]

Ok, I was just asking if it's already known !
(happened with internal MPC H264/AVC decoder only)

[tetsuo55]

If I remember correctly madshi was talking about this issue either here or in the ffdshow thread and said that libavcodec is decoding the stream correctly and molesting it only at the end when it downconverts to 16bit. He made a patch which skips the this conversion and uses it in eac3to.
I could be totally wrong here so anybody with more knowledge, please, correct me.
If I'm not mistaken it was tetsuo55 that also participated in the discussion.Libavcodec has 2 types of decoders for lossy formats. Float and fixed point.

The fixed point ones just decode to whatever fixed point value makes sense for the file (usually 16int).
The float ones decode to 32bit/float and then rounds that down to 16bit int.

Assuming float decoders are used madshi's patch bypasses the rounding function and forces output of 32fp opening up the option to use a dithering instead of rounding for the conversion to 16 or 24bit int (your hardware wont do 32fp)

eventhough this all sounds awesome, the differences between the various outputs are minimal at best, we're talking minute rounding errors in sections of the sound that you probably cannot hear anyway.

[leeperry]

even though this all sounds awesome, the differences between the various outputs are minimal at best
It all starts to matter when you process DSP on that audio, be it Reclock/DirectSound resampling, mixing matrix, attenuation, etc etc ;)

[entrecour]

What's the most accurate way to get audio and video synch when playing h264 material? I am using madvr and ffdshow audio pass-through to an AVR in which I can set an AV synch delay although I imagine the delay depends on the video codec.

[Kazuya]

Other question : which VC1 decoder do you use in MPC for bluray disks playback ?
A friend tried in MPC, VC1 dxva or ffmpeg, in ffdshow, with an old MPC etc... Video get out of sync after 1hour or dropped douzains of frames in a few minutes...
(ATi HD5750, Core i5 760, bluray player Lite On)

[namaiki]

What's the most accurate way to get audio and video synch when playing h264 material? I am using madvr and ffdshow audio pass-through to an AVR in which I can set an AV synch delay although I imagine the delay depends on the video codec.

Delay probably depends more on your TV and other hardware external from your PC.

[Steveo08]

is jumping by keyframe ("Shift+VK_Right") currently broken in the last version?

[namaiki]

is jumping by keyframe ("Shift+VK_Right") currently broken in the last version?

Which version and make sure to use the internal splitters.

[Steveo08]

Which version and make sure to use the internal splitters.



you are right about to use the internal splitter, it was my mistake, i was using haali splitter. know it's working with the internal splitter.

Thank you! :)

[Hera]

Long Standing Issue: FullFP = Stuttering, Frame Dropping {ION, Atom N270, W7}
Things to notice: Stuttering most visible when panning, not picked up by EVR Stats. When combined with CoreAVC, frame dropping is recorded by statistics overlay. Green line skyrockets, then sound stops, then video stutters, Green line goes back and then skyrockets again, ad infinutum.
Things that DO NOT fix this issue: Flushing, D3D10 fullscreen, 10-bit input, Haali Splitter, CoreAVC, MS DTV-DVD, frame time correction.
Things that DOES fix this issue: Ffdshow DXVA codec

Issue: Video stutters with Subtitles on ATi notebook, same video that runs smoothly on my ION netbook {ATi 4250, Athlon II, W7}
Things that DO NOT fix it: Various EVR settings.
Things that DOES fix this this issue: Disabling Smooth Video Playback and using MS DTV-DVD filter OR Using Ffdshow DXVA filter.

Conclusion: MPC's DXVA support needs some help.

[namaiki]

Disabling Smooth Video Playback
What is this "Smooth Video Playback" that you speak of?

Also, is that first situation with FullFP tested when using only MPC-HC's internal filters?


Conclusion: MPC's DXVA support needs some help.
If you would like to contribute, it would be in your interests to get hooked up with Tetsuo55.

[SamuriHL]

What is this "Smooth Video Playback" that you speak of?


I believe s/he's referring to a setting in the AMD catalyst control center. It's supposed to enforce smooth playback by dropping any of the post processing as necessary.

[Hera]

What is this "Smooth Video Playback" that you speak of?

Also, is that first situation with FullFP tested when using only MPC-HC's internal filters?



If you would like to contribute, it would be in your interests to get hooked up with Tetsuo55.

"Enforce Smooth Video Playback" (Radeon options thingy)- I *think* disabling it helps, but there is too much variance to tell exactly (don't know why).
MPC's internal Video decoder does cause stuttering (when combined with ATi 4250 Mobile and Subtitles) which is picked up by the statistics overlay. A non-issue for ION.



FullFP issue happens with only the internal filters enabled. The only solution seems to use the FFDSHOW DXVA filter. At least it looks the smoothest - at the beginning it will stutter (it will also run at a high frame as if catching up, e.g., ~40/24) but then it seems to be the smoothest. In terms of least stuttering: FFDSHOW > Internal / MS > CoreAVC (CUDA enabled).

I have no idea how these things work. Hopefully FFdshow DXVA decoder doesn't perform some optimizations at a price of quality loss!

[namaiki]

Is this on the MPC-HC bugtracker? Also, if you haven't already, please post a video sample of what you are using to test.
Any difference if you disable/enable Aero?

[dleach]

I have a WinXP XBMC system which uses MPC-HC to play BD rips. My process is as follows:

1) Rip BluRay with AnyDVD HD
2) Use Clown_BD to pull together a *.ts mux that includes the forced subtitles and english subtitles (I have the forced subtitles option selected).
3) Copy over the resulting .ts file to my movie directory tree.

I then stream these .ts files to an Acer Revo One unit. Most of the time this works fine but recently I have been getting these cases where the video will suddenly freeze but the audio continues to play on. To fix it I quickly hit reverse on my remote then play. Is this a known problem and is there a fix for this? It is really annoying.

David

[Hera]

Is this on the MPC-HC bugtracker? Also, if you haven't already, please post a video sample of what you are using to test.
Any difference if you disable/enable Aero?

Don't ask me, I am stupid.

http://rapidshare.com/files/438955133/ef_sample.mkv

Yes. Without Aero there is tearing and stuttering whereas with Aero there is only stuttering.

[namaiki]

Don't ask me, I am stupid.

http://rapidshare.com/files/438955133/ef_sample.mkv

Yes. Without Aero there is tearing and stuttering whereas with Aero there is only stuttering.

So, in the above situation when using MPC-HC's internal filters, is DXVA enabled/working and being used? (in the FFDShow DXVA situation it would definitely be being used)
Also, for tearing, try enable: View> Renderer Settings> Reset> Optimal.

In the situation with FullFP, are subtitles enabled or disabled? In all situations, is subtitle animation enabled or disabled?

[Hera]

So, in the above situation when using MPC-HC's internal filters, is DXVA enabled/working and being used? (in the FFDShow DXVA situation it would definitely be being used)
Also, for tearing, try enable: View> Renderer Settings> Reset> Optimal.

In the situation with FullFP, are subtitles enabled or disabled? In all situations, is subtitle animation enabled or disabled?

I always use DXVA. 1080p stuff kinda requires it as the Athlon II is quite weak and well Atom N270 is even weaker.

I did disable all checks (rf count and stuff) on both systems. Interestingly, SD often gets corrupted no matter that DXVA codec is used (ATi *only*).

Tearing only happens without Aero. You have to have something mentally wrong with you to prefer Windows 7 without Aero enabled.

On my netbook, the Atom N270 cannot handle animation while buffering - I have subs set to 800x600. The statistics overlay itself causes the red/green lines to wobble more with its full view (Ctrl-j) compared to its smaller view (Ctrl-j, Ctrl-j) - yes on a netbook the statistics overlay is intensive. The stuttering with FullFP on the NV ION (latest DX, drivers, etc...) happens with and without subtitles.
NV netbook stuttering STR,
1. Download video from YouTube (No subs there)
2. Enable FullFp
3. Play Video
4. Rage

On the ATi Rig (10.10 drivers, 10.11 cause greenscreen I heard), I have animations enabled and resolution set to desktop. CPU is 30-40%.
Video with stutter inducing subs + FFdshow DXVA = OK
FullFP + Video without stutter inducing subs = OK
FullFP + Video with stutter inducing subs + FFdshow DXVA stuff = at worst - half the frames get dropped; unwatchable. at best - stutters.
I have disabled all the post processing stuff in the ATi CP.

NOTE: I use 64-bit MPC w. 4250/Athlon II notebook and 32-bit MPC w. ION/Atom netbook. Bilinear (PS 2.0) resizer, 4 EVR Buffers, all v-sync crud turned off (Aero FTW), wait for flushes, 0-255 output, GPU post-processing disabled.

I am not running anything intensive in the back ground. I have UAC driver killed, services minimal, Aero and superfetch enabled, no PF, plenty of RAM, and I usually run in High Performance setting keeping the CPU at its fastest state.

EDIT: Also it seems to me that NV ION is massively faster than ATi Radeon 4250 Mobile in non-CPU intensive gaming. Might explain some things?

hopefully that helps!
want screenshots?

[bobdynlan]

Long Standing Issue: FullFP = Stuttering, Frame Dropping {ION, Atom N270, W7}
[...]
Issue: Video stutters with Subtitles on ATi notebook, same video that runs smoothly on my ION netbook {ATi 4250, Athlon II, W7}
[...]
Conclusion: MPC's DXVA support needs some help.

Common! You get what you pay for. When the time will come for you to upgrade, please don't give them for free to someone, spear them the suffering and instead dispose of them, properly, at the local electronics recycling centre.

Mean time, don't enable any of the MPC-HC enhancements like FP, 10-bit, Color management, PS2.0 resize, subtitles animation and shaders. And none of the graphics control panel features like edge enh, denoise and so on.

[namaiki]

Video with stutter inducing subs + FFdshow DXVA = OK


Wishful thinking: Is that when you are using FFDShow DXVA's subtitle renderer?

[Hera]

Wishful thinking: Is that when you are using FFDShow DXVA's subtitle renderer?

Just checked, no I wasn't,
FFDShow DXVA's subtitle renderer gets out of sync with the audio in about instantly and doesn't allow subtitle animation. I can't use something that broken.
If ignoring these issues, all stuttering issues go away using FFdshow's subtitle renderer.

EDIT: So, now I have no clue whats happening, so here are my ATi notebook Specs,
OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name ALEX-PC
System Manufacturer Hewlett-Packard
System Model HP G62 Notebook PC
System Type x64-based PC
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) II P340 Dual-Core Processor, 2200 Mhz, 2 Core(s), 2 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Hewlett-Packard F.14, 8/5/2010
SMBIOS Version 2.6
Windows Directory C:\Windows
System Directory C:\Windows\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"
User Name Alex-PC\Alex
Time Zone Mountain Standard Time
Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 3.00 GB
Total Physical Memory 2.74 GB
Available Physical Memory 1.31 GB
Total Virtual Memory 2.74 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.12 GB
Page File Space 0 bytes

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Quite refreshing seeing posts
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1462480&postcount=15343
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1462850&postcount=15358
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1464024&postcount=15413
being deliberately ignored. An explicit sign of mpc-hc has turned into another skiddy (hence bug-overwhelmed) project. Well, care not.

[Hera]

HP Mini 311,

I take back the whole statement that FFDshow DXVA decoder stops stuttering introduce by FullFP.
Just like other DXVA codecs it masks it (you have to visually pick it up).

Are there minimum GPU/CPU requirements for FullFP? Otherwise I give up, tried bloody freaking everything.
=(

[clsid]

Don't use "Allow animation with buffers". Instead, set the subpicture buffer to 0. That will also allow animation, but with much lower CPU usage and less stuttering.

[Kado]

@Hera

Basically you machine is underpowered, I also had some issues on my netbook (Asus 1201N, Atom 330 dualcore, 4GB 800MHz, ION GPU), but everything runs fine one my desktop (Core i7 920, 6GB 1.6GHz, GTX470) using the same videos and settings.
I had to limit subtitle resolution to 1280x720 to have fluid playback. Also try what clsid said, that's what I use as well. I use DXVA on both machines and always the latest build from xvidvideo.ru.

[Kazuya]

I had to limit subtitle resolution to 1280x720 to have fluid playback.

:eek:
I never think about that ! :p

I let desktop for maximum texture resolution, maybe this could explain why sometimes my laptop isn't smooth on fullHD screen...

[tetsuo55]

Quite refreshing seeing posts
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1462480&postcount=15343
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1462850&postcount=15358
http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1464024&postcount=15413
being deliberately ignored. An explicit sign of mpc-hc has turned into another skiddy (hence bug-overwhelmed) project. Well, care not.For one this is mostly an end users forum thread, and none of them can answer these questions.

Secondly this forum thread can not be used for formal bug reports, we have the issue tracker for that which can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/wiki/Bugs_-_Reporting

Thirdly you do not seem to understand how hobby-open-source-projects work.
In short end users like you run into bugs, try to come up with ways to replicate the problem and provide detailed instructions on the tracker.
Then other end users like yourself that also run into the problem learn to program and provide a patch that eventually fixes the problem.
In the case of MPC-HC almost all non-maintenance patches are create through the above system, mpc-hc does not have any full-time developers in the team.

Finally those posts describe 2 bugs, the 1st one seems to be an off-by-one error in the translation RC. the second seems to be a bigger problem with the subtitle filter. The subtitle filter is not actively worked on by anyone, if you want those types of bugs to be fixed i suggest learning C++ and directshow and providing patches, chances of somebody else doing that are slim at best.

EDIT: as i expected, the first bug was fixed in http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/changeset/2759 2 weeks ago.

[Hera]

Don't use "Allow animation with buffers". Instead, set the subpicture buffer to 0. That will also allow animation, but with much lower CPU usage and less stuttering.

I reset subtitle settings to default and just set to desktop resolution (1336x768) and now I just see a small spike whenever they are drawn and once in a while a bigger spike. Doesn't seem to impose horrible stuttering issues.
FullFP does make the subtitles more demanding, GPU/CPU spike more when subs appear with FullFP than without - so it skips frames then.
Notebook CPU usage: 3-30% (Usually below 20%)

[rob4eiwt]

Would one of the developers take on bug #384

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/ticket/384

The original author never got around to fixing the layout and stopping "RD: Off" from appearing alongside every entry.

[joe42]

Some of the MKV files I'm creating from Blu-rays with MakeMKV will consistently crash MPC-HC. Some MKV from MakeMKV play fine consistently, but others consistently crash MPC-HC. The crashes occur within a few seconds of double-clicking on the MKV file and MPC-HC trying to open it -- the file never even begins to play. For the MKVs that crash MPC-HC, if I go back to the decrypted blu-ray files and create the MKV with Clown-BD and MKVMERGE, then the resulting MKV consistently plays fine in MPC-HC. So the MPC-HC crashes only occur with MKVs from MakeMKV (and only some), and not with Clown-BD/MKVMERGE MKVs. In all cases, the MKVs that crash MPC-HC play fine on VLC.

I'm running Win7 32-bit, and I have about 3.4GB of RAM available. I have verified this problem with MPC-HC 2499 as well as the recent 2799 (and a few others). I deleted the registry and .ini settings for both versions of MPC-HC before testing, so everything was default. When MPC-HC crashes, its memory use shoots up to 1.8GB. Here is the crash report from Windows:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: mpc-hc.exe
Application Version: 1.4.2499.0
Application Timestamp: 4c8646fc
Fault Module Name: KERNELBASE.dll
Fault Module Version: 6.1.7600.16385
Fault Module Timestamp: 4a5bdaae
Exception Code: e06d7363
Exception Offset: 00009617
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.768.3
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789


I also noticed that if I uncheck Playback / Use worker thread to construct the filter graph, then MPC-HC no longer crashes, but it gives an "Out of memory." dialog box and forever says "Opening...", although it is still responsive to clicking on the window close box. And the memory usage still shoots up to 1.8GB.

I tried various combinations of MakeMKV selections for what to include in the MKV file, and I found that even if I include nothing but the video (no audio, no subtitles), the crash still occurs.

One BR I have been experimenting with is Spider-man 3. The MKV from MakeMKV consistently crashes MPC-HC. The MKV from Clown-BD/MKVMERGE consistently plays fine in MPC-HC. I tried de-remuxing the MakeMKV MKV with MKVMERGE, and the result crashes MPC-HC. Then I tried to create a clip, 100MB, with MKVMERGE, but the result plays fine. Then I tried a 1GB clip, plays fine. Ditto for 2GB, 4GB, 8GB clips, all fine. The whole file is about 30GB, so I tried splitting it into part 1 and part 2, with part 1 being 15.4GB and part 2 is 14.7GB (note, shorter than part 1). Part 1 plays fine on MPC-HC, but part 2 crashes MPC-HC.

I also found that Lord of the Rings #1 from MakeMKV plays fine, but #2 and #3 both crash MPC-HC. LOTR #2 and #3 MKVs from Clown-BD / MKVMERGE play fine. I have seen similar behavior on a number of titles that I will not list now.

I have an Intel core i3-540 with integrated graphics and the latest Intel driver.

I've done a fair bit of reading, googling and searching this forum and avsforums and MakeMKV forums, and I haven't found anything quite like this. But I think that my setup is not terribly unusual, far from it, so I wonder why no one else has reported this. Am I missing something obvious? Or should I file a bug ticket on MPC-HC and/or MakeMKV?

Any other information I could provide to help? I haven't been able to generate a short clip to demonstrate the problem. So far the smallest is 15GB.

[namaiki]

Does it crash when you are opening the file, or during/in the middle of playback?

Any difference if you disable MPC-HC's internal DXVA filters? (View> Options> Internal Filters> Untick "H.264/AVC (DXVA)" assuming the video is H.264/AVC)

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For one this is mostly an end users forum thread
Yourself included, lol?
Thirdly you do not seem to understand how hobby-open-source-projects work.
I deeply believe in one and only thing: if one cannot do something properly, he'd rather not do it at all.
as i expected, the first bug was fixed in http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/changeset/2759 2 weeks ago.
Just as I expected, nothing's been fixed — it's still not possible to choose subtitle stream albeit they appear in menu.

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3695/26249558.th.png (http://img812.imageshack.us/i/26249558.png/)

FYI last ver. it works the way it should is 1.4.2667.

[tetsuo55]

Yourself included, lol? Yes i am an end user.

I deeply believe in one and only thing: if one cannot do something properly, he'd rather not do it at all.If that where the case we would still be living in caves, i can recommend reading this: http://undsci.berkeley.edu/article/intro_01

Just as I expected, nothing's been fixed — it's still not possible to choose subtitle stream albeit they appear in menu.

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/3695/26249558.th.png (http://img812.imageshack.us/i/26249558.png/) the bug i mentioned is fixed, however you seem to have another bug (so that makes 3 in total). If you can still reproduce it after completely resetting all mpc-hc related settings and using the latest nightly build i suggest opening a ticket on the tracker..
See the troubleshooting links in my signature for further help.

FYI last ver. it works the way it should is 1.4.2667.[/QUOTE]

[vBm]

Would one of the developers take on bug #384

http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/mpc-hc/ticket/384

The original author never got around to fixing the layout and stopping "RD: Off" from appearing alongside every entry.

As far as i know jonasno said he'll not work on mpc-hc anymore or so. (dunno why thou)
Best bet to get that one implemented is if you do it alone or find someone that will send a patch.

As tetsuo said mpc-hc doesn't have any full time developers anymore.

[v0lt]

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/media-player-features.html
Media Player Classic Home Cinema supports the following Windows OS versions:

* Windows NT
* Windows 2000
* Windows XP x32 and x64
* Windows Vista x32 and x64
* Windows 7 x32 and x64

Download Media Player Classic Home Cinema !
Please remove the Windows NT and Windows 2000 from the list.

[vBm]

http://mpc-hc.sourceforge.net/media-player-features.html

Please remove the Windows NT and Windows 2000 from the list.

As you know ... site is outdated and it looks like a cheesy scam product.

Tetsuo is waiting on new layout to be done and sent to him. (soon i hope)

[v0lt]

@vBm
If the site is completely redesigned, it's good. Only now people are confused.

[vBm]

@vBm
If the site is completely redesigned, it's good. Only now people are confused.

Yes, i've been told that we'll have completely overhauled site, it'll be clean and minimalistic just like ffdshow tryouts has (something that clean).

I really hope that it'll get finished soon cause indeed current site is a big mess.

[dleach]

Anyone with experience with this issue?

I have a WinXP XBMC system which uses MPC-HC to play BD rips. My process is as follows:

1) Rip BluRay with AnyDVD HD
2) Use Clown_BD to pull together a *.ts mux that includes the forced subtitles and english subtitles (I have the forced subtitles option selected).
3) Copy over the resulting .ts file to my movie directory tree.

I then stream these .ts files to an Acer Revo One unit. Most of the time this works fine but recently I have been getting these cases where the video will suddenly freeze but the audio continues to play on. To fix it I quickly hit reverse on my remote then play. Is this a known problem and is there a fix for this? It is really annoying.

David

[Lincoln Burrows]

I have done one experience here with MPC-HC and a proprietary software called "Total Media Theatre" from Arcsoft. I was going to convert the contents of DVDs/BDs into Matroska, when I realized some of them, like slideshows, can't be properly converted. So I had the idea to keep those contents by leaving only the original VOB/m2ts files that were necessary to gain access to the menus and watch them. It worked with one Blu-ray so far, and today I managed to make this work with a DVD, called "Sunset Boulevard" (1950).

The contents were:

Morgue Prologue Script Pages (text pages that are accessing one VOB file - the script have some icons that when are clicked, are accessing short videos - both contents - texts and all videos - are inside this VOB, but only the videos can be converted into MKV)

Photo Galleries:
- Production
- The Movie
- Publicity

In this case, the following files were removed from VIDEO_TS in order to access such contents:

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/162/imagemsyd.png

Those files were left behind, they will not (and cannot) be converted into MKV:

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/816/imagem2be.png

Of course if the user tries to access some content that is not available in the first picture, like the movie, it will not work, but that's not a problem.

And while using MPC-HC, I was perfectly able to access this movie with all the listed files from the 2nd image.

However (and this is where it gets interesting), MPC could not open another title. The reasons are unknown, but that same title (with some files removed from VIDEO_TS) worked using TMT. My idea was to access the original main menu, while converting the episodes into Matroska. I am going to do this with other titles, in order to access those contents from my computer.

It was the disc 1 from "Superboy". I have only left the main menu (with a static image). This disc has no extra features, only episodes. But MPC is giving me nothing but a black screen when I try to open that directory (if it's incomplete). I used in both cases the option to access DVDs (not individual files) = control + D + selecting VIDEO_TS folder(s).

Those are the files from the static menu, you may try to use both softwares if possible to see what's wrong:

http://www.multiupload.com/L2H7FLRG7F

Any ideas why MPC can't open this title? Perhaps it can't because all connections made by the DVD authoring are broken, and it's not refusing when only some of them are working, like in the Sunset Boulevard case?

[joe42]

Does it crash when you are opening the file, or during/in the middle of playback?

Any difference if you disable MPC-HC's internal DXVA filters?

It crashes while it is trying to open the file. It never even begins to play.

Disabling all the internal DXVA filters made no difference.

[gorgone]

hi can someone help with a little strange m3u play problem ?
if i want to play a stream from my dreambox/dbox2 with enigma/enigma2
i can play the stream if i use only the stream url but not with the complete m3u file
example.:
------------------------------------------------------
http://10.223.8.75:8001/1:0:19:7C:A:85:C00000:0:0:0:
------------------------------------------------------
work ok

m3u with the same url and 2 lines @ the begining
------------------------------------------------------
#EXTM3U
#EXTVLCOPT--http-reconnect=true
http://10.223.8.75:8001/1:0:19:7C:A:85:C00000:0:0:0:
------------------------------------------------------
not work

windows media player and vlc have no problem with the m3u

[o770]

Hi.
How should I set DXVA(H.264) compatibility check with intel core i3?
How should Presentation be set?

This is for Windows Seven Home Premium and enabled Aero.

Is this guide (http://imouto.my/watching-h264-videos-using-dxva-clearvideo-version/) any good?
Thanks!

[namaiki]

I'd do everything except:
Disabling VSync (you might get stutter with this option disabled)
Enabling Frame Time Correction (If all of your videos are constant framerate it probably doesn't matter to have it enabled, but if you have any variable frame rate stuff, you will experience problems)
Blocking FFDShow Video decoder (You can though... MPC-HC and Windows 7 both have various other video decoders built in)

Presentation should be fine with everything unticked. You can try tick Force 10-bit input, and Full Floating Point Processing, but you will probably get a black screen instead of video.

[mindbomb]

Question:
Is the internal software h264 filter multithreaded?

I have advised someone to install ffdshow for ffmpeg mt, but I'm wondering if this is redundant.

[ranpha]

I'd do everything except:
Disabling VSync (you might get stutter with this option disabled)
Enabling Frame Time Correction (If all of your videos are constant framerate it probably doesn't matter to have it enabled, but if you have any variable frame rate stuff, you will experience problems)
Blocking FFDShow Video decoder (You can though... MPC-HC and Windows 7 both have various other video decoders built in)

Presentation should be fine with everything unticked. You can try tick Force 10-bit input, and Full Floating Point Processing, but you will probably get a black screen instead of video.

Playing a VFR video with v-sync disabled (Aero enabled) and FTC enabled.

http://thumbnails25.imagebam.com/11274/954039112739914.jpg (http://www.imagebam.com/image/954039112739914)

Where is the stuttering?

[namaiki]

Play the video at the change between framerates.

[ranpha]

Play the video at the change between framerates.

That spot is exactly where the video starts switching from 30fps to 23fps (right after the OP theme ended and after the announcement scrolling text finished). No problem whatsoever.

[namaiki]

Please PM me a link to the video.

This is what I always get:
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1520/ftc.th.png (http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/1520/ftc.png)

Anyway, try play at the 23-> 30 change. I can mimic the same graph that you saw, but with stuttering at a 60-> 24 change (in other words, there is stuttering, but the graph does not show it).